1933-06-10 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1933.

AUTHOR FROZEN

STIFF

Danish Adventurer Tells London Of Thrills

CITY LIFE CONDEMNED

FRADIO"

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. London. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 "Caged beings. that's what K.C.'8): you are in London," growled Nils Petersen, the Danish author and

12.30 p.m.--European programme of poet who has tramped the roads Victor & H.M.V. records.

the Mediter of Europe from

ranean to the Arctic Circle.

I p.m.-Local Time & Weather

Fort

"Give me the wide open spaces

where a man can breathe and

-equal this:--

The Studio).

2.15 p.m.---Close. Down.

Dance Music To-night."

4-7 p.m.-Chinese

Iramme.

recorded

pro-

JUDGE REDUCES SENTENCE

Scathing Comments By Sir Thomas Graham,

to m

"MOST IMPROPER TERM”

THE CHINA MAIL

To-Day's Short Story.

THE LAUGHING CAMEL

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By S. Andrew Wood.

Granhamstown. THE Laughlox Camel came jabber politics, while the Bessemer Convicted on a charge of steal-tottering slowly on its trol-choked itself. ing a cockerel valued

"Look there!" said Armstrong. at any-ley through the gates of the

It had Darlington was looking. The thing from 1 to 2/-, a starving Yenovlask furnace yard.

was new furnace, which had been built native, 58 years of age, with an two humps and its head

that it surveyed under his blood and sweat, towered unblemished character, was sen- siewed, Retenced by a magistrate to five everything and everybody with soft against the stone-grey sky. sardonic grin that looked There was something impressive months imprisonment with hard a

about Big Ivan, There was a 1.15 p.m.--A relay of the Hong Kong labour and a fine of one shilling, aeons old.

It stopped drunkenly and the streamer dapping on his top-plai- of the or in default four more days in live. That's the trouble with Hotel Orchestra by courtesy

prison,

a in charge, lantern-jawned and form and propaganda banners cities. Now, where in a city Management. (During the intervals re-

The cast was reviewed in the leather-legginged, slung a large hanging all about him. The works would you find an adventure to corded music will be broadcast from Supreme Court by the Judge-pasteboard placard round its hairy committee came in a strag-

President, Sir Thomas Graham,peck:

gling group round the ore-piles, who made a number of caustici

"Awarded to the Tenovlask making a wide track round the comments on the sentence andi

Steel Plant for producing only Laughing Camel, but brightening altered it.

20.000 tons of a quota of 100,- visibly as their eyes alighted upon "Not being a fraudulent bank-

000, under the Five-Year Plan." Big Ivan's finery. rupt or a dishonest lawyer or]

There was a dead and stricken "They're going into a huddle:

"Da, da, an illicit diamond buyer," said silence among the members of the again," said Larlington.

works .komintern who watched, to-morrow, Comrade. Rabinovitch. Sir Thomas, "there was no ques huddled in the gateway, to let the it will be a day of rejoicing.... - tion of this wretched man ob- camel pass. One of them spat co- where the devil's that interpreter taining bail, whereupon he was of 19 days until investigations dent and little Jock. Armstrong, Katerina is locked up in the old detained in prison for a period piously but furtively pear to Dar-girl?"

[lington, the furnace-superinten- A voice" spoke: "Comrade regarding his past record. had been made. Eventually it was avoid the trajectory,

įhis assistant, curved expertly to chapel. I am appointed by the criminal record against this manjega the little Tynesider, Arm-

komintern to take her place. My discovered that there was по

On his short and rather bowed English is very good, comrades.”

Shock-brigadier Volkov, from and after he had been in prison for this period he was broughtong, moved to the effigy of shame Moscow, was a little white about the

und inspected it curiously.

gilla. He was a red-headed boy "It does seem to me that steps

Among the clutter of the furance of 20 or so, with a face that Tito Schipa (Tenor) 1523 should be taken to alter the pro- three giant blast furnaces Stalin, skinned

like sard, in the very shadow of the waS

tight, clear. mask. It was under- cedure in lower courts with re- Korodin and Molotov, the shaggy stood that he had registered gard to the investigation of a thing of goatskin and thick papier- with little Katerina, the stenogra man's past in petty cases of this mache leered round at him with pher, who was also interpreter to character. It is most improper studied insult.

the foreign technicians. It was

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"One time I was ski-ing over! the snowy wastes of northern Sweden when my ski broke." struggled on with my heavy! pack, but sinking deep into the snow with every step. At last it came to me, the grim know- ledge that I was lost in that dreary wilderness of white. could not go on. I was exhaust- ed... spent. I stumbled face downwards into a deep drift. must have lain there for hours. "When I awoke it was to see the face of a girl peering_sym- I was pathetically into mine. frozen stiff.

"She knew there was no time! to be lost, and being of the hardy northern breed, she lifted me on her back and carried me to the nearest vlage a distance of 30 miles.

"Another time. ski-ing in the dark forests of Finland, I became terror-stricken when wolves chased me.

"They kept pace with me, slinking among the trees. A long eerie howl echoed through the forest and the green eyes closed in around me.

"Ski-ing for my life, I shouted in panic and the husky brutes fell back at the sound of my

7-11.30 p.m.-European programme

7-7,21 p.m.--A Concert.

Song-

A Banjo Song (Weeden-Homer) Oh, Promise Me! (Scott-De Koven)

Louise Homer (Contralto) 1295. Piano Selon

Neu Wien Valce (Strauss, ar Bright) Mark Hambourg C250s, Confesion (Discepolo-Amadori) Napule (Schipa-Hinton)

Coppelia-Waltz (Delibes)

'Cello Solo-

Serenata Napoletana

(Sgambati, arr. Bouman) Intermezzo (Vivaldi)

1.21-7.35 pm,

Alcina Suite (Handel)

up for sentence.

aix

that a man-probably a respect Pablo Casals 1542.

"Da, da, da," said Jim Darling- able father of a family-who, de-

ton, patiently. "Tek yes the new siring probably to have a more furnace will wipe out the Insult.. Philharmonic Symphony Orch of palatable diet than the mealies Da, da, Big Ivan will emelt New York directed by Willem Mengel- to which he was

berg 1435-6. yielded to the temptation and]

accustomed, hundred tons of iron a day." 7.35-8.52 p.m.-Variety... Duet

stole this chicken, should be kept still

Jock Armstrong, his rabbery face

solemnly agrin, Love Scene from "Private Lives" Scene from "Private Lives"

Gertrude Lawrence & Noel Coward Orchestral-

C2043.

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MONDAY'S STORY.

Monday's story will be “17,45,” by A. J. Alan.

joined not love, of course. It was the in gaol for a period of 19 days his companion and

150 they biological sympathy that was tigation into his past record. awaiting the result of the inves- walked to the two furnaces much more enlightened

Stalin and Borodín, which "They've put that nice little girl} "As he has served this period, were stone-cold, and to Molotov," began Jock Armstrong, gap" | have reduced the sentence to who rumbled flatulently at the ing. Carlos Molina & His Orch. 24160.labour for a period of seven days Until the Pyetületka, the Five comrades.

one of imprisonment with hard Caughing Camel. Song

Balloong

with a compensatory. fine of one Year Plan, Yenovlask was a golden-She refused to sign the petition for In Old Siberia

shilling, or four days' imprison-domed little town that slept. Then the Death Penalty for Continued In- Gracie Fields (Comedienne) B4362. ment with hard labour, which is the cathedral had been blown up efficiency, and insulted the koman Beu-Violin Solo

Blue Skies Dance of the Maldens

voice."

Mr. Petersen has somehow in his adventurous life had time to write that new popular book, "The Street of the Scandal- makers," a vast picture of Rome! under Marcus Aurelius. ter.

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Jack Simpson B4351.)

My Fraternity Pin

"She awaits Party judgment, It is a painful case.

the smallest amount of imprison- and the Yenovlask still slept. Dar-term. She told them they would) ment that a magistrate can in-lington, trying to teach barbers and weigh as heavy as the men in the 1233.pose. This, of course, means peasants and prominent local. Com-Icemetery with bullets if that hap- that the accused will be imme-munists how to smelt iron and make pened. Her brother was among diately released."--Beuter.

steel Ingots, was growing a ́ white those dead men, you understand. forelock Jock Armstrong, of Mid-They will charge her with counter- dlesbrough, had never before seen revolutionary sabotage, I fear." ļa steelyard which had once been a "Eh, the dirty tyken!” said Jock. cathedral, or a plant run by a works "There's rata as big as sheepdogs committee which gathered In one fin that chapel. And what they Huge Sums Paid For of the old underground crypts to call disease germs, too. It was A "Learning The Ropes."

dead-house in the last shootings,

The Girl in the Little Green Raz

George Olsen & His Music 24220. Humorous Song-

I Learned About Women from Her A Gay Caballero

Frank Crumit 21736. Orchestrat

Lamento Borinqueno

A new fleet of motorcars, cap- able of speeds between 80 and 30. miles an hour, has, it is urče) - stood, been ordered for the use! La Guajira of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad.

At the same time it is report-Vocal- ed that. within the next few Lovin' You

bandit."

have been carried out during the past few months, and experimen-

tal transmitters have been set up

at Tottenham and Kew.

New Mayfair Orch. 36080. 8.52-9.02 p.m.-“What The Start

9.02-9.50 p.m

PRICE OF SOCIAL SUCCESS.

London.

SMALLEST NATIONS GROW FASTEST

Well then, she ought to be 'prised out toot sweet, and given some fresh air. Are yo' game, comrade?"

Volker's mouth twitched. He But

Jugo-Slavia Gigantic looked on the edge of tears.

Population Increase.

BRAZIL TOPS WORLD LIST

London.

his voice was stiff.

"You don't understand our ideo- "It is discipline. The insult of the Laughing Camel must be liquidated.”

ogy," he said.

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eccle-

such mighty censers as

* With the approach of the Lon- Don Azpiazu & His Orch. B6296 don "Season," several discreet advertisements are to be seen in Jack & Claude Hulbert B4336. the personal columns of the news- months ordinary police patrol Orchestral

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at a price. effectiveness against the "car Selections from Casanova

It is a strange business, this Experiments with wireless-Foretell" for those barn between 21st trading in social success. One The smaller nations of Europe

Yenovlask, still a medieval town telephones for this type of work May and 20th June by R. H. Naylor rich manufacturer, a few seasons are the ones whose population is of the Ukraine, had thought it an B4297. ago, paid £1,500 for the services increasing the most rapidly, ac exquisitely fit thing to build ita of a. Peeress who was to intro-cording to statistical tables just new blast furnaces on an Rustic Wedding Symphony

(Goldmark, Op. 26)

duce his daughter into society. published by the Registrar-Gen-siastical site. Those old God- Vienna Philharmonic Orch. conduct. He took a large house and en-eral,

merchants, the priests, had never ed by Robert Heger M-103.gaged an army of servants. The Jugo-Slavia has the greatest swung It has found, however, that 9.30-11.30 p.m.--A relay of the Hong the signals transmitted to police Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the expenses for entertaining must increase of any European people Stalin, Borodin and Molotov, Stalin cars seriously interfered with re- Hong Kong Hotel Grill Boom by cour have cost him at least another 16.2 per cent, or nearly three never grew hot. Borodin slew.

(£2,000.

times that of England and Wales men, and Molotov rumbled foolish- ception on ordinary wireless sets tesy of the Management. over a considerable area near the All records in the above European privilege of being asked to stuffy

It seems a lot to pay for the (5.5 per cent). broadcasting stations. Conse-programmes are kindly supplied by first-nights, going to Ascot, din- cent, Bulgaria 13 per cent, and his guts the iron boiled merrily as Holland is next, with 15.6 per But Big Ivan was a glutton. In quently, it has been decided the Messrs. S. Montrie & Co.

ing in crowded restaurants, cur- Greece 12.1 per cent.

though he appreciated the banners Switzerland has the smallest that had decked him and the brass. tseying at Court, and being a bridesmaid at society weddings increase of any European coun- band which had accompanied the

-Reuter.

try only 4.9 per cent;

lighting of his fires. To stand on In all the world the greatest the top platform, holding on to the HITLER'S FAMILY.

increase of any country was handrail, as did Darlington, young that for Brazil, which at the last Volkov and Comrade Rabinovitch, census revealed-the

enormous was to overhang a simmering hell. increase of 77-per-cent. Brazil a great cofe was slung in Big now has a population of over Ivan's throat, and, every other 31,000,000.

'minute, as it dipped the wan affer The great European countries]noon daylight was spun with pale Britain, France, Germany, and fire, and

11.30 p.m.--Close Down.

police patrol cars are to con-

tinue to pick up messages

in

FELIX KEEPS ON WALKING.

Morse code. Reuter.

COL. COUSENS PROMOTED. Gazetted To Rank Of

Brigadier.

130,000 Miles In

11 Years.

London.

One of the most interesting| men recently in London now la

TREE.

Ancestors Traced To 1672.

Vienna.

Italy show an increase in “Mind your step," said Darling-

Colonel R. B. Cousens, D.S.0, Felix Scully Starlight, a 37 year- Assistant Adjutant and Quarter old American-Indian from St. The name of Adolf Hitler, the population that ranges from 5.6 ton to Comrade Rabinovitch. "That Master General in charge of Ad-John's Newfoundland. In the German Chancellor, was written per cent. to 6.6 per cent during cone down. there would hold you, ministration of the China Com- past 11 years he has, walked a "Hiedler" until about 1760, as the last 10 years.

supposing you slipped in. ·· But mand, has been appointed Brigadier. distance equal to five times round cording to the newspaper "Wal The Datch are increasing at a you'd sizzle while it was what's

Born in 1880, Col. Cousens was the world."

dviertlur Bote, which gives some pace nearly double that of Bel- up1" educatedd at Epsom College and He has worn out 100 pairs of particulars of his family tree.ium and treble that of Ger Darlington looked wearily at Clare College, Cambridge, and en-¡boots.

The family came from Walter many

La Comrade" "Rabinovitch, grocer- tered the Army in 1900.

He has a pack weighing 31 schlag in the Waldviertel region The average family

mily in Spain turned-furnaceman, and chairman In 1980, he was raised to the stone and he has always carried of Upper Austria, and can be trac and Portugal now is found to be of the works committee At best rank of Colonel and is the follow-it on his back until this year, ed back there to 1672. They twice the size of that in England, of times Rabinovitch was a sickly ing year joined the China Com-when somebody gave him a bl- then moved to Spital near The United States shows a 16 looking person with wet green eyes -mand. During the Great War, he cycle. He also carries signatures Gmuend, now on the borders of per cent. increase during the past and a sly manner. He was more

had a fine record seeing service at of hundreds of Town Clerks and Czechoslovakia.

10 years but its population has so, now. The forehead his god Gallipoll, Palestine and France and Mayora of towns in England and Hitler's father learned the been helped by immigration, was too high, and

fying for being mentioned four times in de- Scotland, to which he has justifrade of shoemaking, but later Japan shows an expansion of 10 him. He turned fro Joolding spatches, He was awarded the added that of the Lord Mayor became a civil servant and rose per cent, et de fascinatedly at the red-hot fron D.8.0. In 1918. From 1927-31, of London.

shop to be a senior official in the Cus- Among the Scandinavian coun- funnel that was clung over the when he received his appointment Felix expects, to travel another toms,

Cod tries, the growth of population is thundering entrafis of Big Ivan, with the China Command he was 15,000 miles before he reaches Adolf was the third child, he greatest in Sweden (6.9 per and began to crawl gingerly back commanding the 18th. Field Bri- his home in Newfoundland Again has an elder brother and sister cent) and lowest in Denmark to the truck-lift gade, B.A

Reuter

and one younger sister-Reuter. 5.6 per cent). Reuter.

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